Tapper
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Tapper is an action game where you're a beer tapper (barman) and have to serve beer to demanding customers. There are four customers, each has its own lane lengthier than the previous one, whom you have to keep at bay. If they reach the end of the lane without receiving their beer, you're a goner; if you miss one and accidentally spill beer needlessly you lose a life and should one of them throw you back the mug and you fail to catch it, you lose a life as well.

Occasionally a bizarre icon will appear on one of the lines and, should you grab it, will invoke a "cabarette"-style show which will keep some of the customers occupied.

The Xbox 360 version includes bonus rounds, as well as co-op and versus multiplayer modes, also online, along with achievements.

Trivia

There was a version of this game licensed to Budweiser, which had Budweiser's logo on the backdrop.

The player character in this game is based on an employee of the game's designer (Marvin Glass) named Mike Ferris who had the same bald head, glasses and mustache, and always wore a red T-shirt. In the original coin-op versions, his T-shirt is in red. The same man is also found in some other Marvin Glass coin-ops: "Domino Man" and "Timber".

The game featured some "product placement" during the bonus round. I remember at least the Mountain Dew logo and I doubt this market was considered by their marketing department back in 1983. Whether they agreed that Bally Midway show their trademark or not remains a mystery.

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Description from the packaging:

Side-Splitting, Soda-Slinging Laughs and Spills!
The Official Home Version of Bally/Midway's Arcade Sensation.
Five belly-busting screens of Soda Fountain Fun, including:
Four mad-capped bar rooms of soda-starved, clammering cowboys, sports fans, punks and space creatures.
Plus a head-spinning Soda Bandit Bonus Round.
Awesome color-packed action graphics.
Just try to keep your cool as hot-headed, crazy customers blitz your bar for another cold one.


http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/tapper/trivia
